Some random pics

nedly05 · Sep 23, 2009

Today we got a call from some masons working just up the road from the shop, they were trying to dig next to a house by hand, and had hit a big rock. We brought the 410-G up and moved it, then they asked since we were there if we could dig it for them and tear out a concrete step. We ran and got the mini and I snuck around the back of the house and started working away from dad as he busted up the step. Heres a pic!

nedly05 · Sep 23, 2009

Monday I dug a waterline, it was a bit of a challenge, mostly because I am spoiled and get to do everything with the excavator, well I did this one with the 410-G. It was very steep, it gets steeper than it looks in the pic! I felt a little awkward for a while, but I got it done. That new backhoe is great, but you just can't beat and excavator!

nedly05 · Sep 23, 2009

nedly05 · Sep 24, 2009

Today we did some grading in front of a garage to stop water from entering.Dug it down, graded and swaled it away and added some fine gravel, it was a big improvement!

nedly05 · Oct 4, 2009

The best day ever!

Three weeks ago this coming Tuesday my wife gave birth to our first child! A little girl! Man is it amazing how fast things change, how your perspective on the world is different, and how hard it is to leave for work for 10hrs after you have a child!! Shes starting to get into a better groove for sleeping at night and being awake during the day, but for a while she was totally backwards! So if your seeing some posts from me at strange hours, thats why, she and I are cruisin HEF, machinerytrader.com, and truckpaper.com!!!!

tootalltimmy · Oct 4, 2009

Congratulations!

Every day will be a new adventure. Enjoy!

nedly05 · Oct 4, 2009

tootalltimmy said:
Congratulations!

Every day will be a new adventure. Enjoy!

Thanks timmy!!

nedly05 · Oct 9, 2009

We did some work on a old logging road that the owners are slowly trying to turn in to a decent road. The first part is really steep. They had a few places where ledge protruded out toward the road, so we went up,cleaned the ditches, lined them with cob rock, and drilled and blasted the two worst spots. Heres the actual blast, notice how I jump when the shot goes off! LOL

YouTube - Ditch Project part 1

nedly05 · Oct 9, 2009

This is the video of putting the ditch back together after the shot rock had been cleaned up. After the blast, that section of ditch was way lower than the rest of the ditch, so I sorted out the smaller shot rock and built it up, then used some crusher run to finish it, then added the cob rock.

YouTube - Ditch Project

NateV · Oct 9, 2009

Nice work!

What size bed is on your granite?? We keep thinking about maybe getting a tandem but want to keep it on the smaller side so we can still get into back yards. Yours looks like a good size, low sides, not like some of the others you usually see. I think if we get one it will be about 14ft long.

nedly05 · Oct 9, 2009

NateV said:
Nice work!

What size bed is on your granite?? We keep thinking about maybe getting a tandem but want to keep it on the smaller side so we can still get into back yards. Yours looks like a good size, low sides, not like some of the others you usually see. I think if we get one it will be about 14ft long.

Thanks!, the box is 14 feet. It's super manueverable, in lo lo, I can just let it crawl, and it hasnt ever not gone where I wanted it to. The sides are low enough that its easy to load, but not so high that you cant haul stumps, C&D and other awkward stuff. It's a great truck, I am super happy with it!

nedly05 · Oct 23, 2009

This is "phase 2" of a guard rail/ retaining wall we started last fall. In "phase 1" we layed up 2' minus shot rock, and placed 15" plastic culvert vertically, about 4'-5' deep. After all of the shot rock was placed and culverts set, we set our 8X8 posts in them, braced them up and poured the culverts full of concrete. After the posts were all set and the concrete set up we bolted 6X8's on for a rail. Its totally solid, and they gained about a foot of road.

"phase 2" is more just guard rails, the culverts are being set more in gravel this year as most of the shot rock was placed on this section of road during renovation of the house, when some ledge was blasted to make the road wider. There will be some shot rock work but nothing like last year.

nedly05 · Oct 23, 2009

Some of the rails from last year and the wall.

nedly05 · Oct 23, 2009

When they did the renovation, they had to set up a pump truck to pour the concrete, well when they cleaned out the pump they just slopped the concrete around on the edge of the road and covered it up. Of course that little 6" stump was right where a post had to go and it had about a foot of concrete 3' out all the way around it, we got it though!!

nedly05 · Oct 23, 2009

Some more, the last one is the staging area for the new water main in town. I'm not very good at driving and taking pics! I will try to get some more. It's a complicated little system for a town of 1000 people. A lot of directional drilling. They have to push under the river 4 times,and the road 3 times just for the main. Then they have to push all of the laterals for the houses on the oppisite side of the main. In the beginning the digging was so bad that they brought in a crusher and crushed all of the dig down to 4" minus and used it for backfill after the bedding was in. The whole main basically follows the river through town, and its all nested cobbles, and boulders. I think they went 75' the first day. They are doing the main with a 228 Komatsu, and a volvo loader. Crushing with a 345 Cat, and a big Nordberg crusher. The laterals and drill pits are being dug by two 312 Cats and a 175 Terex duck. They have a D5 at the dump site for anything thats not being crushed.They have had 5 dump trucks working everyday. It's quite a job, they are planning on going until December then picking up again in the spring.

EZ TRBO · Nov 4, 2009

Congrats on your lil girl, a life changing event. Glad to see you keeping busy, now will be plenty busy all the time.

Trbo

nedly05 · Nov 4, 2009

EZ TRBO said:
Congrats on your lil girl, a life changing event. Glad to see you keeping busy, now will be plenty busy all the time.

Trbo

Thanks TRBO!!! Oh I'm plenty busy alright, 55 hrs a week, and getting up at 3AM, but I'm having a blast!

nedly05 · Nov 18, 2009

A quick video from todays truckin' The Jake sounds pretty good if I say so myself!!

YouTube - Haulin' stumps with the Mack

erthmover · Nov 18, 2009

Sweet video and the Jake brake sounds awesome! We need more.

nedly05 · Nov 18, 2009

erthmover said:
Sweet video and the Jake brake sounds awesome! We need more.

Thanks!! I can do that! It takes me forever to upload to you tube though. Is it my service or does it take everyone a long time?

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